Hi :) Congrats on fixing that issue Ian! Is there any chance of adding it somewhere in the Faq? http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Faq#Base Regards from Tom :)
>________________________________ > From: Ian Whitfield <whitfi...@telkomsa.net> >To: users@global.libreoffice.org >Sent: Thursday, 1 November 2012, 12:42 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Connecting LO Base to an SQL DB > >Thanks Heinz > >Well I even went off this morning looking at 'other' solutions for this and it >seems to be - Use Base or go and learn PHP or Ruby or something like that!! > >So I got into Base again and found an interesting fact - Base had _NOT_ stored >the link in it's Driver Class!! After a couple of re-tries it now seems to >have done that and I can now get past the 'Test Class' stage OK!!! > >The next screen is 'Authentication' - I enter the User Name and select "Test >Connection" and I get > > Communication Link Failure > The last packet sent successfully to the Server was 0 milliseconds ago. > The driver has not received any packets from the Server. > >OK - Now I'm stuck again...... My Database (Schema) was called >'federals_Members.sql' when I first created it but last week I had to >re-install my OpSys and to get it back into MyAdmin I had to import it and >it's now there called 'Test'!! Neither of the above two file names make any >difference to the error message. > >Next the User Name - In My Admin it is 'root', when I set-up the Database I >used 'Ianw' and my System login is 'Ianw' also. Again neither of these changes >the error message. > >To check I started MyAdmin and it connects fine with the Database and displays >the table structure just fine. > >So why wont Base connect to it??? > >Thanks > >IanW > > >-- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org >Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > > > > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
